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Author: Abbey Cerek
Search & Affiliate Marketing Strategist since 1993
Media Briefing: Overheard from publishers at Digiday London Media Strategies Town Hall
This week’s Media Briefing looks at what publisher execs discussed during Digiday’s Town Hall held in London this week, regarding new ways to measure audeince value, the risks of blocking AI crawlers and more.
- Publishing execs discuss the latest attempts to find the right engagement metrics for the AI era.
- The New York Times and The Economist join publisher AI coalition SPUR.
As AI reshapes how audiences find and consume media, publishers are rethinking how to measure reach and make money, with no proven playbook yet. At Digiday’s Media Strategies London event on Tuesday, Oct. 13, executives weighed new ways to measure audience value, the risks of blocking AI crawlers, the uncertain economics of licensing content to LLMs, and whether agentic media trading is ready for the real world.
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